Unklmarty wrote:I have 3 Insteon water sensors and each of them send me 20+ heartbeats each day. I replaced the batteries yesterday and today 2 of them sent me, via email (as per trigger settings) 23 heartbeats each. The other one sent me 2 heartbeats. This multiple emails happens almost every day. Help it's driving me crazy. I really need the WS since I am in a high water table area and water sometimes seeps up along the basement floor and outside walls. Last time I got water, the devices did send me multipule alerts as expected. How to I control; the heartbeat problem?
Marty
I set up a timer for each one as suggested on the wiki support page:
There are several ways that Indigo can monitor the heartbeat. For instance, you could have a trigger fire that restarts a Timer device that has a run time for 50 hours (a bit over 2 days). Then create a trigger that fires when the timer expires that will notify you (via email, growl, or whatever) when the heartbeat has been missed.
This makes the most sense to me. Ignoring the heartbeat completely means having a false sense of security... And I don't really want to replace batteries every 6 months on a device that should last for years. It's easy to test your triggers (especially if you have multiple leak sensors) by simply disabling one of the "Heartbeat Detected" triggers -- the one that resets the timer. After a couple days of it being disabled, I expect to get a text message telling me to change its battery.